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Back to the Future Day wrapped up, self-lacing sneakers became a reality, and then Jimmy Kimmel took the festivities a bit further.
Marty McFly & Doc Brown Visit 2015 With Jimmy Kimmel, Immediately Hate It
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Back to the Future Day wrapped up, self-lacing sneakers became a reality, and then Jimmy Kimmel took the festivities a bit further.
Marty McFly & Doc Brown Visit 2015 With Jimmy Kimmel, Immediately Hate It
Starring in a short film that’s paired with a blockbuster movie seems sort of like being a pinch-hitter who sat on the bench but got invited to take a victory lap with the starting team; the glory is automatic, but it would have been great to be able to play in the big game. But for Marvel movies, short films are more like audition tapes, and Item 47 , which accompanies the September 25 Blu-ray release of The Avengers , introduces two characters – played by Lizzy Caplan and Jesse Bradford – who may soon find themselves joining in on the superhero action, if they prove as appealing to audiences as their ingenuity does to S.H.I.E.L.D. In the short, directed by Marvel co-president Louis D’Esposito, Claire (Caplan) and Benny (Bradford) find a Chitauri weapon and use it to rob banks following the events of The Avengers . Following a fan screening of Item 47 at Comic-con Friday night, Movieline sat down with Caplan and Bradford for a fun conversation about their past, present and (hopefully) future experiences with superhero movies. Had either of you gone out for superhero parts in the past? The industry keeps making those movies in greater numbers. Caplan: Yes, they do. Bradford: Yes, I’d read for a couple, but just because I think this is funny, I read for Captain America . I was literally looking at the material, going, “What are they, crazy? I’m not right for this.” I got nothing to lose by going in there, but I know I’m not going to get it. And I’m walking in there going, “They should just give this job to Chris Evans – he’s perfect for this!” He’s my buddy, and as I was auditioning, I was picturing Chris Evans saying the words. Caplan: That’s hilarious. Had you gone out for anything? Caplan: A few things. I don’t think really for anything Marvel, but a couple of things. But I feel like I’ve gone out for people in those movies who aren’t necessarily superheroes, which is sort of a buzzkill. If you do it, you want to be the hero. How much did they pull back the curtain for you to see Marvel’s machinery? This is meant to be part of a larger universe – although these characters didn’t exist previously, was there anything you had to be careful about with your characters? Caplan: Well, they had it so planned out in their heads by the time we showed up. I mean, they knew everything, and we just kind of had to slide into position – which is cool, because at their compounds, Marvel, they’re just like excited kids about all of this stuff. And so when you walk in, it’s very difficult not to get swept up in that. Bradford: Yeah, they kind of nerd out on their own nerdery in the best way, so it’s contagious. Caplan: They’re nerding their way all of the way to the bank. Bradford: Snort-laughing all of their way to the bank. You guys seemed to be having fun with the fans last night, Lizzy, telling the kid in the audience about all of the emotions you went through during filming. Caplan: I did talk to him, until four in the morning, if you catch my drift. Don’t put that as a headline. Oh, that’s a headline. Caplan: (snapping a pen cap) Aah! Okay, okay, I won’t make that the headline. Bradford: She was thinking about all of the passion last night. Caplan: No, we were talking – we were just talking! Until you gave him the chocolate milk that made him sleepy. Bradford: [Laughs] He’s so cute when he drinks chocolate milk. Caplan: So cute when he just goes to sleep and doesn’t remember. Bradford: He looks like an angel – just like an angel. Wait – what were you really asking us? How much of the humor in the short was on the page, and how tough was it to sort of acknowledge the weirdness of it without sacrificing the believability? Bradford: I think that was there from the start. That was written into the tone for me. Caplan: Yeah, the Marvel guys, I got the feeling that nothing is more hilarious to them than just watching stuff explode. Like that’s the greatest joke they’ve ever seen – which is great, because that’s pretty easy to do. But yeah, there was a lot more footage of us messing around and improvising that they had to tone us down a little bit. Bradford: And they gave us the freedom to do that, which was really nice, and they also shot it properly for that. We were there in a shot together, actually having an interaction, which is better for comedy than cutting. They were going for comedy. Caplan: Yeah, and I think if they let us include how we started shooting that scene, the film would have been like 25 minutes of cutting back and forth, of us doing stupid, stupid stuff. Bradford: We were going on tangents. Caplan: Long ones. Did they talk to you about coming back for one of the films, even if it was in a non-superhero role? Caplan: Honestly, not at the beginning. I didn’t hear until later that they might use these one-shots for this. I thought it was just contained when I signed up. Bradford: Well, I asked in the first meeting I had. Caplan: I don’t ask questions. Bradford: I said, “What’s the goal here?” and they said exactly what the answer is, which is, “The possible goal is that these guys become a part of the world. The other possible thing is that this is it. We just don’t know yet.” So yeah, it’s up in the air. Is there a role that is out there that you’re determined to jump into, transform yourself physically, and become the superhero, or do you prefer playing the roles where you are reacting to the superheroes? Bradford: I think if you’re interested in acting, then you want those kinds of roles. It doesn’t have to be a superhero, really; I mean, I would love to play a skinny, disheveled heroin addict and things like that – it doesn’t have to be a fantastical thing. But you have to find characters that you can really sink your teeth into, and it’s obviously exciting to do. Caplan: I personally love it when I see actors that you wouldn’t expect in movies like this. Like I think Robert Downey Jr. was sort of that in Iron Man , and he was amazing in that. I want to see people I identify with other types of films in something with a scale like this. Bradford: But I also really enjoy playing characters where you’re essentially just being yourself. I don’t think everybody is good at that – it’s kind of a skill to just be sort of natural. Caplan: Sounds like pretty lazy acting to me. Bradford: Well, yeah. Item 47 will debut on the Avengers Blu-ray release on September 25. Todd Gilchrist is a Los Angeles-based film critic and entertainment journalist for a variety of online and print publications. You can follow his work via Twitter at @mtgilchrist .
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Marvel’s Item 47: Jesse Bradford and Lizzy Caplan on the Avengers Blu-ray Extra
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Because it’s been too long since we all got to bask in the whimsy of Richard Dreyfuss , and because when I try to think about much of anything in this heat I feel a wave of sweat form at my hairline before washing away any hope of finishing said thought, and because it has nothing at all to do with The Dark Knight Rises , here’s a video of the Oscar-winner’s many onscreen laughs over the decades past. You’re welcome!* *: I’m sorry. [via The Atlantic Wire ]
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VIDEO: Spend 3 Minutes Enjoying the Many Laughs of Richard Dreyfuss
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Gen Art, the yearly New York film festival that attracts a good-looking get in-the-know crowd to its packaged week of nightly premieres followed by a party at different NYC hot-spots has unveiled details on its 17th edition taking place August 8 – 14. Missed Connections starring Jon Abrahams and Mickey Sumner will open the festival, while the world premiere of The Kitchen starring Laura Prepon and Dreama Walker will close out the fest. Details follow on Gen Art’s seven feature premieres: The 14 selected films also include performances from actors such as Bryan Greenberg, Kathy Bates, Christopher Lloyd, Toby Hemingway, Kurt Fuller and Jake Hoffman, with directorial debuts from Ryan Eggold ( 90210 ) and Jaime King ( Sin City ). “Our festival this year features intriguing performances from prominent actors as well as some exceptional work from talent making their debuts on both sides of the lens,” commented Marc Lotenberg, CEO of GenArt in a statement. “We look forward to this event every year and are glad to be back to give these talented filmmakers a chance to have their New York city premieres.” 17th Gen Art feature film lineup with descriptions courtesy of the event (all features will be preceded by a short, details can be found at the festival’s website . Missed Connections Director: Martin Snyder (Comedy) In a city of 19 million people, love at first sight happens every instant. But if you fail to act in the moment, how can you find each other again? ‘MISSED CONNECTIONS’ is a dynamic, new independent comedy about the lengths New Yorkers will go to find love. Cast: Jon Abrahams, Mickey Sumner, Malcolm Barrett, Waris Ahluwalia Privacy Director: Jorg Ihle (Thriller) When a young programmer creates a spy app and accidentally hacks into all the smart phones across NYC, he gets way more than he ever expected and soon becomes entangled in a web of romance, crime and murder. Cast: John Shephard, Gina Busch The Magic Life Director: Nelson Cheng (Documentary) “The Magic Life” is a new documentary following three aspiring magicians as they try to pull off the biggest trick of their lives by turning their passion into a profession. Leave Me Like You Found Me Director: Adele Romanski (Drama) After a year of heartbreak and loneliness, Erin and Cal have forgotten enough of each other’s flaws to get back together. Cracks start to show and each is left wondering whether the other has changed enough to make it work this time. Cast: Megan Boone, Patrick Kack-Brice The Silent Thief Director: Jennifer Clary (Thriller) “The Silent Thief” is a fast paced examination of tenuous familial bonds, the human to belong and the thin line between sanity and insanity. Brennan Marley is an outcast drifter who descends upon a family in crisis and attempts to remedy their problems with an odd solution: he will take their biological son’s place in the family unit. Cast: Toby Hemingway, Cody Longo, Frances Fisher, Kurt Fuller Kid-Thing A Zellner Brother Film (Drama) Annie is a rebellious ten-year-old girl. She lives on the outskirts of town with her father Marvin, who, when not herding goats, mostly sleeps the day away. Virtually devoid of parental guidance, Annie is left to fend for herself and do as she pleases until her routine is broken one day while playing in the woods; she hears an old woman calling from deep within an abandoned well, asking for help. Cast: Sydney Aguirre, David Wingo, Nathan & David Zellner The Kitchen Director: Ishai Setton (Comedy) Jennifer (Laura Prepon) is turning 30 and her best friend Stan (Matt Bush) is throwing her a party. But she’s in no mood to celebrate. She just left her job as well as her cheating boyfriend, Paul (Bryan Greenberg). Her sardonic little sister Penny (Dreama Walker) has shown up with a life-changing decision to make and she’s definitely sure she’s too old to be living with her creepy roommate still. Cast: Laura Prepon, Bryan Greenberg, Dreama Walker (World Premiere)
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7 Premieres & 7 Parties Set for Week-long Gen Art Festival
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Did you know Diane Keaton and Steve Jobs were neighbors once? That could have gone better: “And he starts talking and all he’s talking about is the computer thing. How the computer was going to take over the world. And I’m sitting there like, ‘OK, right.’ And he keeps talking about how everyone is going to have a computer in their life, in their world, in their home. And I’m going, ‘Right, Right.’ And I never saw him again ever, because obviously I just wasn’t prepared for that. I thought, ‘Is he nuts?’ Can you imagine? What an idiot I was.” [ Ellen DeGeneres Show via THR ]
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About That Time Diane Keaton Blew Off Steve Jobs
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For once in Bad Movies We Love history, I’m both speechless and teary-eyed. The holiday season is here, and as far as I’m concerned, that means it’s time to wheel out the movies that are fucking dependable — the ones that enrich our families, provide nourishment for our newborns, and encourage Jesus to be more of a hilarious character actress. For me, this means one movie — my favorite movie — and one that could be considered bad if you are a heartless, freakish, braindead moviegoer who thinks that skittish ensemble comedies based on board games might be stupid. I would strangle those people in a poorly lit billiard room. The movie is Clue , it’s the one thing on Earth I’m positive I love, and I want to hug you as I write this. Girl, let’s hold our candlesticks high, our dignities low, and bludgeon the daylights out of Mr. Boddy.
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Bad Movies We Love: Clue
[ Minor early spoilers may follow, particularly for anyone who’s avoided Contagion ‘s trailer or coverage from Venice . — Ed. ] No one is safe in Contagion — not from the MEV -1 virus that ricochets out of a crowded Macau casino to cut down a sizable selection of the global population with frightening plausibility, and not from Steven Soderbergh’s pitiless refusal to abide by the unspoken rules of the mainstream movie.
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REVIEW: Contagion Treats Star-Studded Pandemic With Stone-Cold Tension
Back to the Future II director/producer Frank Marshall recently tweeted , “Something big is coming soon. Can’t say anything yet. No one should know too much about their own destiny. #BTTF.” Well, this package from Dr. Emmett L. Brown helps explain: It’s Nike’s upcoming Air Mag shoe, a replica of Marty McFly’s kicks from the first BTTF sequel, that boast self-lacing technology. Put on yer incredulous Crispin Glover bug eyes, because this is pretty wild! More in Buzz Break after the jump.
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Marty McFly’s Back to the Future II Kicks Can Soon Be Yours
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2010: The year we went Back to the Future . Of all the cultural anniversaries and milestones that occurred during the last 365 days, none was more all-encompassing than the 25th anniversary of the time Marty McFly hopped in a souped-up Delorean, headed to 1955 and almost stumbled into an incest-y relationship with his mother. Memories! In case you aren’t Back to the Future d out — and in case Santa didn’t bring you the Blu-rays for Christmas — AMC is running all three films in marathon form starting tonight at 6 p.m. Ahead, in an effort to get you excited for this epic timewaster, watch a scene-by-scene comparison of the end of Back to the Future and the beginning of Back to the Future II …now with more Elisabeth Shue!
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VIDEO: One Final Viral Back to the Future Clip to Close Out 2010
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